Month: July 2016

London hosts the world’s biggest annual cycling festival this weekend, and both professional and amateur cyclists tour the traffic-free streets of the city in 100 or 46-mile challenges. The Prudential RideLondon event has brought together more than 100,000 cyclists eager to take on the closed roads on two wheels between July 29 and 31. The…

Zlatan Ibrahimovic signed a one-year deal with Manchester United this summer, but the other day he made a surprising reveal – he said he turned down good friend David Beckham’s offer to sign with Miami MLS. The Swede football star left French club Paris Saint-Germain this year and was pursued by several clubs before committing to…

Four people were wounded on Tuesday night after an undercover police car crashed outside a north London restaurant. The eatery involved in this incident is Pizza East in Highgate Road in Kentish Town, and the silver Vauxhall Astra was apparently responding to an emergency call when it smashed into customers sitting outside the pizzeria. According to the Met…

Nineteen people are reported dead and at least 25 injured in a knife attack at a medical care for mentally disabled people in central Japan. Early reports on the matter say that a former employee stormed in and went on a stabbing rampage at about 2:10 a.m. on Tuesday. The incident happened at a residential…

Leicester City attacker Riyad Mahrez has reportedly decided to join Arsenal, which means he is set to move soon to the Emirates Stadium in London. Although Leicester manager Claudio Ranieri has publicly expressed his confidence that Mahrez will not leave the King Power Stadium yet, saying “It is over, the market is closed here. Mahrez wants to stay,”…

Donald Trump officially accepted the Republican nomination as US presidential candidate on Thursday night, vowing to put America first and restore “law and order” in the country. In his acceptance speech, Trump talked about America’s struggles with crime, terrorism and immigration and explained how he plans to address them should he win the elections. He…

Politicians, experts and members of the public engaged in a heated discussion about the future of the United Kingdom on Channel 5’s Brexit: The Big Debate Live. Brexit remains a hot subject for the nation, who is now preparing to start negotiations and the formal procedure for the departure from the European Union after they…

At least 265 people were killed and more than 1,400 injured in an attempted coup d’état in Turkey on Friday night, a night that felt like doomsday for many. Given the long history of coups in the country, this new attempt hasn’t taken the current political class by surprise and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan…

At least 84 people lost their lives and more than two hundred were severely injured last night in Nice, France, when an ISIS fanatic drove a lorry at high speed into the crowds celebrating the country’s national day. The attack happened at around 10.30 pm local time, when the suspect drove chaotically for nearly 30…

Today is David Cameron’s last day as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and he appeared before the country’s Parliament to give a final speech, in which he defended his political views by saying ‘I was the future once.’ Cameron is stepping down as PM after losing the Brexit referendum on June 23, whose result has…